Marketing
Everything I Know About Naming I Learned From ‘The Simpsons’
The iconic animated comedy can help differentiate between winning and losing approaches to branding.
Brad Flowers co-founded Bullhorn, an agency that builds confident brands with language and design. Brad leads naming and language generation at Bullhorn. He has a degree in English literature, which he finds more useful than he expected.
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